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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (14142)	2/28/2003 11:52:31 PM
From: PartyTime	Respond to of 25898

And of things nuclear, the Bush Administration has one month to solve that nuclear issue? Will it? Or will it be bogged down in an unnecessary hatred-drawing war in Iraq?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (14142)	3/1/2003 10:47:44 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

Au Contraire we have given them money to make their procurement of expensive weapons systems possible. We have given them technology that has enhanced whatever the French and S.Africans allowed them to acquire, we have supported them in their program by saying nothing at all about their WMD's- even thought we don't want other powers in the region to have WMD's. That IS support- and it is support for their nuclear weapons program. "The states arrayed against Israel hold that it is their right to develop nuclear weapons as a deterrent to the Israeli arsenal. They believe that Washington maintains a double standard by ignoring Israel's acquisition of weapons of mass destruction while opposing the transfer of even peaceful nuclear technologies to others. Both Iraq and Iran have sought a nuclear capability as a strategic equalizer. In the case of Iraq, however, nuclear weapons serve an ambition greater than that of a relative deterrent. Saddam's search for regional hegemony meant that he must both overcome Iran's strategic superiority and stake a claim to leadership of the Arab world. In Saddam's eyes, weapons of mass destruction in general, and nuclear weapons specifically, serve both purposes. They counter Iran's strategic depth and demographic superiority. They are also seen to threaten and confront Israel. Thus they play to broader inter-Arab themes. ............. The US also doesn't advertise what it gives to Israel, and I suspect we've given it a great deal more in terms of weapons technology than we should have. I hope we haven't, but I worry that we have. Since these transfers are probably buried in Files deemed to sensitive to be released under FOIA, we''ll probably never know.